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Jets and Dijets in Au+Au and p+p Collisions at RHIC
Recent data from RHIC suggest novel nuclear effects in the production of high
hadrons. We present results from the STAR detector on high angular
correlations in Au+Au and p+p collisions at GeV/c. These
two-particle angular correlation measurements verify the presence of a partonic
hard scattering and fragmentation component at high in both central and
peripheral Au+Au collisions. When triggering on a leading hadron with 4
GeV, we observe a quantitative agreement between the jet cone properties in p+p
and all centralities of Au+Au collisions. This quantitative agreement indicates
that nearly all hadrons with 4 GeV/c come from jet fragmentation and that
jet fragmentation properties are not substantially modified in Au+Au
collisions. STAR has also measured the strength of back-to-back high
charged hadron correlations, and observes a small suppression of the
back-to-back correlation strength in peripheral collisions, and a nearly
complete disappearance of back-to-back correlations in central Au+Au events.
These phenomena, toghether with the observed strong suppression of inclusive
yields and large value of elliptic flow at high , are consistent with a
model where high hadrons come from partons created near the surface of
the collision region, and where partons that originate or propagate towards the
center of the collision region are substantially slowed or completely absorbed.Comment: Proceedings of Quark Matter 2002, to appear in Nucl. Phys.
Eye-Safe Solid-State Quasi-CW Raman Laser with Millisecond Pulse Duration
We demonstrate the first quasi-CW (ms-long pulses, pump duty cycle of 10%)
end-diode pumped solid state laser generating eye-safe radiation via
intracavity Raman conversion. The output power at the first Stokes wavelength
(1524 nm) was 250 mW. A theoretical model was applied to analyze the laser
system and provide routes for optimization. The possibility of true CW
operation was discussed.Comment: Preprint accepted for publication in Optics Communications on Feb 6,
201
Jet properties from di-hadron correlations in p+p collisions at s**(1/2) = 200-GeV
An analysis of high pT hadron spectra associated with high pT
particles in p+p collisions at s**(1/2) = 200-GeV is presented. The shape of
the azimuthal angular correlation is used to determine the value of partonic
intrinsic momentum \sqrt{\left} = 2.68 \pm 0.07(\rm stat) \pm
0.34(\rm sys) GeV/c. The effect of kT-smearing of inclusive cross
section is discussed.Comment: To appear in the proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Hard
and Electromagnetic Probes of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions (Hard Probes
2006), Asilomar, Pacific Grove, California, 9-16 Jun 200
Results and Perspectives in HEP, vis-a-vis Lattice QCD
I review in this presentation some aspects of phenomenology in High Energy
Physics which are related to recent and possibly future progress in lattice
QCD. In particular, I cover (i) the extraction of CKM matrix elements from B
physics, (ii) the determination of epsilon'/epsilon, as well as (iii) some
issues emerged in the physics of high energy jets produced in hadronic
collisions, where input from non-perturbative calculations would benefit our
capability to perform better theoretical predictions.Comment: 13 pages, Latex, 9 figures. Plenary talk delivered at the XVIIth
International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, Pisa, Ital
Driving-dependent damping of Rabi oscillations in two-level semiconductor systems
We propose a mechanism to explain the nature of the damping of Rabi
oscillations with increasing driving-pulse area in localized semiconductor
systems, and have suggested a general approach which describes a coherently
driven two-level system interacting with a dephasing reservoir. Present
calculations show that the non-Markovian character of the reservoir leads to
the dependence of the dephasing rate on the driving-field intensity, as
observed experimentally. Moreover, we have shown that the damping of Rabi
oscillations might occur as a result of different dephasing mechanisms for both
stationary and non-stationary effects due to coupling to the environment.
Present calculated results are found in quite good agreement with available
experimental measurements
Spatial Solitons in Media with Delayed-Response Optical Nonlinearities
Near-soliton scanning light-beam propagation in media with both
delayed-response Kerr-type and thermal nonlinearities is analyzed. The
delayed-response part of the Kerr nonlinearity is shown to be competitive as
compared to the thermal nonlinearity, and relevant contributions to a
distortion of the soliton form and phase can be mutually compensated. This
quasi-soliton beam propagation regime keeps properties of the incli- ned
self-trapped channel.Comment: 7 pages, to be published in Europhys. Let
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